The U.S. Supreme Court has just stopped President Donald Trump from deporting some illegal immigrants. 

The Washington Examiner reports that the court handed down a 7-2 decision against the Trump administration on Saturday.

The two dissenters were conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. They are both currently being targeted by the political left for their dissent.

Trump, for his part, has not, at the time of this writing, responded to the court's decision. Instead, he left the situation up to Attorney General Pam Bondi and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

The details:

This has to do with the Trump administration's attempt to remove some illegal immigrants from the United States, using as its justification the Alien Enemies Act.

The Examiner reports:

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 authorizes the rapid deportation of migrants from countries the U.S. is at declared war with or who are attempting an invasion. President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act on the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, declaring an invasion by them, and deported a group of Venezuelan nationals to a prison in El Salvador last month.

Various groups are challenging this move, legally, including the American Civil Liberties Union.

The Examiner writes:

The ACLU had alleged in its court filings that the Trump administration had notified multiple migrants in the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, that they were subject to the Alien Enemies Act, and feared deportations would begin quickly.

The group, attempting to stop the deportations, lost at the lower court levels, which is how the case made it up to the Supreme Court.

The latest

Now, the Supreme Court has given the ACLU a victory, albeit a temporary one.

In its Saturday order, it wrote:

There is before the Court an application on behalf of a putative class of detainees seeking an injunction against their removal under the Alien Enemies Act. The matter is currentlyb ending before the Fifth Circuit. Upon action by the Fifth
Circuit, the Solicitor General is invited to file a response to the application before this Court as soon as possible. The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court. See 28 U. S. C. §1651(a).

Thomas and Alito dissented, but, at the time of this writing, we do not know why.

The Trump administration still believes that it will prevail in this matter.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt put out a statement, saying:

We are confident in the lawfulness of the Administration's actions and in ultimately prevailing against an onslaught of meritless litigation brought by radical activists who care more about the rights of terrorist aliens than those of the American people.